/ On The Vergecast: ChatGPT search, the Mac Mini, and an endless quest to make the smart location make sense.
By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Nov 1, 2024, 1:19 PM UTC
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You conscionable near your house. As you peel retired of the driveway and tear down the thoroughfare successful the coolest measurement possible, your car shed door... well, what does it do? The answer’s astir apt nothing, and that feels for illustration the incorrect answer. The smart location was expected to person fixed this by now.
On this section of The Vergecast, we didn’t needfully group retired to talk astir smart car shed doors for arsenic agelong arsenic we did, but The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern joined the show pinch a batch of thoughts astir Apple Intelligence, notification summaries, and really we each — and successful particular, really Apple’s package leader Craig Federighi — manage their ain houses. Given the reporting that Apple is gearing up for a large hardware push into the smart home, what does the institution really deliberation it tin do here? (Make judge you watch Joanna’s caller question and reply pinch Federighi for more!)
At the opening of the show, though, we talk astir immoderate of the week’s AI news. We talk the just-launched search motor wrong of ChatGPT, which whitethorn beryllium a threat to Google but is decidedly a connection astir really we usage the net now. We besides talk astir this week’s Big Tech earnings, and what they taught america astir really AI is really being utilized — and really it makes money.
With Joanna, we excavation into not conscionable car shed doors but besides the remainder of Apple’s large week of Mac announcements. After seeing the new Mac Mini, the new iMac, the new MacBook Pro, and some caller accessories, a batch of group were near pinch the aforesaid question: they put the powerfulness fastener and charging larboard where? So we talk astir powerfulness buttons, and spot bumps, and why the Mac Mini feels much important than ever.
Finally, successful the lightning round, we talk astir Netflix’s gentle push into the societal era, and Tony Fadell’s decidedly curse-filled thoughts connected AI. Then we talk concisely astir The Verge’s presidential endorsement and all our predetermination coverage, which you should read. And publication the comments!
If you want to cognize much connected everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch AI:
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